Elderly Learners and Massive Open Online Courses: A Review

Posted on: 29 January, 2018

January 2016

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become commonplace in the e-learning landscape. Thousands of elderly learners are participating in courses offered by various institutions on a multitude of platforms in many different languages. However, there is very little research into understanding elderly learners in MOOCs

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